This book is subtitled '25 years of Jewish living in London'. Rabbi Schwartz was born about 1875 in Europe. He was a shochet (a ritual slaughterer), and this is his book, published two years before he died in 1948. He has a lot to say - 242 pages of Yiddish, in a small typeface, printed … Continue reading In Kamf Kegen Shtrom (In a struggle against the stream), by Rabbi Jacob Joseph Schwartz, London 1946